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Originally Posted by bunt_q
Walking by the EPA building walking home from the Pepsi Center last night, I couldn't help but wonder - why is the energy-conscious ultra-green EPA keeping their lights on all weekend? You *know* nobody is working - not even janitors - at midnight Sat in a federal building. Bet I could do a non-green building and shut the damn light off once in a while and be just as energy conscious as they are. Good thing I don't live across the street from there. Damn lights.
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I believe it's for the security guards in the building and as a preventive measure for intruders. It's minimal lighting and I guess one of the coolest things about the EPA building is that the lights are sensitive to body mass and only come fully on when someone is coming down the hallway. Could turning the lights all the off and then back on result in more of a power drain than just keeping them on at a low level? I know that this applies to some practices, not sure about lighting.
But the mice running around the first two floors are a problem.